Longer Quotes

For example, UNICEF works with governments to change legislation such as in India where a law was passed raising the age of compulsory school completion to keep children in school and away from the workplace for longer.

Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.

Research has shown that people who volunteer often live longer.

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.

Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.

The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that. That has to change or education will not improve in this country.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no longer compelled, as among the Egyptians, to succeed to his father's craft.

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Like Canada, we very much wanted the United Nations to be a relevant and effective body. But once those efforts failed, we no longer saw things from a multilateral perspective. For us, now, it is much more basic than that. It is about family.

I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.